I have hoped until
now to be at the funeral of your brother and to testify by my presence
something of the high esteem in which I held him as a gentleman and a soldier
while he lived and the profound sorrow I feel at his death.I know however he would not have wished
me in these hours of peril to neglect the interests of the state he loved so
well and in whose defence [sic] he so willingly died even to do honor to his
memory.As a General the whole
nation honored and mourns him but Pennsylvania has reason to cherish with
especial pride alike the noble qualities of character which led him to his high
command and his chivalric courage on the historic field of battle where he
closed his life so gloriously.